Carton-marking attachment for carton-setting-up machines or the like.



'PATENTED 00115, 1907.

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w. H. DOBLE. CARTON MARKING ATTACHMENT 'FO-R CARTON SETTING UP MACHINES OR THE LIKE.

APPLIOATIOH FILED APR. 5, 1908.

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UNITED STATES PATENT o EIoE.

WILLIAM II. DOBLE, or QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO PNEUMATIC, SCALE CORPORATION LI IT D, A CORPORATION 0E MAINE.

CARTON-MARKING ATTACHMENT on GARTON-SETTING-UP MACHINES on THE LIKE.

, Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Oct. 15, 1907.

Application filed A'pril5,1906. Serial No. 310,025.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, WIIILIAMH. DOBLE, a citizen of the United'States, residing at Quincy, in-the county of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Carton-Marking Attachments for ('arton-Setting-Up Machines or the Like, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying diawings. i

In the putting up of goods in cartons by machinery, the receptacles used are sometimes cans and sometimes cartons or other forms of boxes-and when cartons are used, they are frequently of the knock-down form so called, and require to be set up before being filled. Sometimes the cartons of this knock-down type are set up either by hand or 'on a machine independently of the filling machine, and are then transferred by'hand to the filling machine, and sometimes the setting-up machine is connected with the filling machine in such a; manner that the carton 'is formed, and its flaps glued and automatically transferred to the filling mechanism or connected with the same machine. Whichever form of receptacle is used, and whether the setting-up mechanism is connected with the filling mechanism or independent thereof, it in any event is desirable in putting up many kinds of goods to have some designating mark placed upon the receptacle, as for instance, the date on which the packages are filled, and in somecases it is desiredto print some other designating mark on the package. I have described in another application an attachmcntfor a filling machine by which suchdesignating mark is controlled by the movement'of the filling machine to mark the cartons or other receptacles. When, how ever, the cartons are filled on the same day that they are set up, whether the setting-up mechanism is connected directly with the filling mechanism or is independent thereof, the designating mark may be applied just as properly to the carton before it is transferred to the filling mechanism. g

The special object of the present invention is to provide means wherebythc carton, may be marked of which my present invention could be applied. In Patent No. 767,445, granted August 16, 1904 to the Pneumatic Scale Corporation on the application of W. S. Scales/there is shown a slightly different form of carton setting-up machinefand'in Patent No. 732,225, granted .Tune 30, 1903, to Henrietta W. Doble on the application of W. S. Scales, there is shown a machine for gluing paper boxes,,to both of which machines the invention might be adapted. In the drawings accompanyingthe present application, I have shown accompanying drawings, and the novel features are its normal position. Fig. 3 is a front elevation showing the marking disk in engagementwith the carton. Fig. 4 is a side elevation in detail on an enlarged scale of the marking mechanism and immediately eonnected parts. Fig. 5-is a detail of the marking disk.-

Fig. 6 is a side elevation, partly in section, showing the crank arm which carries thermal-king disk and the shaft and pinion on the crank shaft and showing a friction disk which engages the pinion on the crank. shaft.

Referring to the drawings,1 is an intermittently rotating shaft on which is mounted a spider head 2, having a series of radiating arms 3 which carry the forming blocks 4", 4', 4, 4 The shaft 1 has an intermittent motion, turning at each. period of movement through an are sufficientto bring the blocks in successive rotation into position'for one of the blocks to receive a carton which'is'to be formed. and to have its flaps folded and glued at successive stages.

' The particular mechanism for giving the intermittent rotation to the shaft 3 forms no part of. the present invention. One form of mechanism for doing this, which is shown in the drawings, is briefly as follows: Mounted on shaft 1 beneath the spider 2 is a slotted disk 10 formed with radial slots 9. Mounted on shaft 5 is a locking disk 6, having an arm or spur 7 which carries a pin 8 which is adapted to engage successively with the slots 9 in said disk At each revolution of the shaft 5, the shaft 1 and spider 2 which carries the forming-blocks are rotated through a quarter turn or through a portion of a turn-depending on the number of slots in thedisk 10.

The cartons are subjected to the various folding and gluing operations in passing item the station occupied by the block 4 to the position of block 4", thence to block 4, thence to the station of block t, at which point, in the form of machine represented in the drawings, the carton is stripped from the forming block.

Mounted onguide rods 12, 12, is a vertically sliding block' 13 to which are attached throw-oil lingers 14 which projectinto the path of thc carton on each side far enough to engage the uppcr ends of the side panels of the carton when the slide block descends and strip the carton irom theforming block. A rod 15 is pivoted at one end to the slide block 13, the other end of said rod being pivoted to' one end of lever 16, the other end of said lever to being fast to a rocker shalt 17, said rocker shaft being actuated by suitable mcchanisinto vertically reciprocate the rod 15, Suitable mechanism for actuating the rocker shalt 17, so as to reciprocate the rod 15 and slide block 13 at proper times, is shown and fully described in said Patent No. 767,445 above mentioned. Secured to standard 18 and projecting laterally therefrom is a bracket 15 Journaled at one end in said bracket 19 is a short shaft 20 and fast to the other end of said shaft 20 is a sleeve 21 from which pro jects downwardly a crank arm 22 and from the lower end the pinion 26, it causes the same to rotate andthereby rotates the pinion 25 which also turns the crank 22 When the slide block 13 moves downward, the attached stripping fingers 14 carry the carton downward from the forming block, and the bar 28 and rack 29 will also move downward, and by means of the pinions 26 and 25 will turn the crank 22 up into the position shown in Fig. 3, bringing the marking disk into engagement with the side of the carton 34. The continued descent of the slide block after the rack portion of the bar 28 has moved down past the pinionwill, by reason of the frictional engagement of the rotary marking disk with the carton, cause the marking disk to rotate and print the designating character which it contains upon the side of the carton. In order that the lever 22 and marking disk may not fall back of their own weight after the rack 29 has passed down out of engagement with the disk 26, 1 provide a friction washer 30 on the shaft 20 which ongages the end of the pinion 25 and binds it sutliciently so that it cannot fall of its own weight, but at the same time allows it to be moved by some positive force. When the slide block is carried up again by the rocking of the shaft 17 in the opposite direction to that which carries the slide block down, the rack 29 will engage the pinion 26, and thereby turn the crank 22 down again and bring the marking disk back to its normal position.

In order to properly set the marking disk 24 it'it becomes turned too for on its axis during the movement for the type to engage the carton to make the propcr imprint there-are provided two oppositely disposed pins 31 in its face which respectively engage the stop pins 32 in its descent, thereby always bringing the disk back to the right position for a new start. If it should be turned too far around on its axis one way or the other when it returns, one of the pins 3l would strike the stop pin 32 before the other one and cause the disk to turn until the other pin 3l strikes its stop pin 32. These stop pins, as shown, are lixcd to a plate 33 sccurcd to lllc frame. An arc-shaped inking pad 2*;5 is providcd on which the marking disk 24 rolls in its movement to and from the carton.

While I have dcscribcd the marking dcvicc as applied to a carton set ting-up or gluing machine as shown, the invention is not limited to ap]. lication to that form of machine, and it is not intended that the claims shall be limited to combination with that form of machine. It is obvious that the marking mechanism can bc :\c1\| atcd by a reciprocating membi-r carrying a carton in such manner as to cause the marking mechanism to cugage the carton whether the carton is carried by a sctting-up machine or gluing machine or for other usc.

The word carton has bccn used in dcscribiug the application of thc,iuvention as it is especially intcndcd for use in machines for handling cartons, but it is intended that the word carton shall include packages of any description which are adapted to be markcd bv mechanism of the character described.

What I claim is:

1. A device for marking packages comprising :1 reciprocating member which moves the packages in one direction, marking mechanism, and intermmlinto mechanism hetwccn said marking mcchauism and said reciprocating member whereby the movement of said reciprocating member in one direction moves the marking mechanism into engagement with the package and the movement of said reciprocating member in the reverse direction turns said marking mechanism to lls normal position.

2. A device for marking packages comprisingmechanism for moving the packages, a rocking lever havln l pivoted to its swinging end a rotary nmrkinc; disk at d intermediate mechanism between said rocking lever and said packn;,-e moving mechanism whereby the package moving is engaged by the marking disk at each reciprocating movement.

2%. A device for marking pzici' ges, comprising a vertically reciprocating member which moves the curious in one direction, a rack carried by said reciprocating member, a rocking lover carrying at one end a rocking lever 1nlcrumcd at one end andcarryiug :it the other end marking mechanism and intermediate gearing between said rock ing lever and said rack whereby the movement of said reciprocating member in the direction which moves the package will turn sziid l'ockiIlL lever into the position where the marking mechanism will engage the movingpackage and the reverse movement of the reciprocating member will return the rocking lover and marking mochnnism to their normal position.

4. A device for marking packages, comprising a i ccipro eating memhernvhich moves the packages in one (lll'ccllulh a rocking lever pivoted at one end to n fixed support and having pivoted to its free end a rotary marking di: and intermediate mechanism between said rocking lover and fulcrum and bring the marking disk into engagement member and thereby moved into engagement with the carton.

with the moving package.

5. A device for marking packages, comprising a reciprocating member which moves the packagesin one direction, a rocking lever pivoted at one end to a fixed support and having pivoted to its free end a rotary marking disk of the rocking lever and'which-is engaged by the marking disk at each reciprocating movement.-

6. A device for marking packages, comprising a recipro eating member which moves the packages in one direction,

a rocking lever pivoted at one end to a fixed support and having pivoted to its free end a rotary marking disk and intermediate mechanism between said rocking lever and said reciprocating member, whereby the reciprocating member, when it moves in the direction which moves the package, actlial'es the said rocking lever to turn on itst'ulcrum and bring the marking disk into engagement with the moving package, and means which engage the marking disk at'the end of' each return movement whereby the which is actuated by the movement of said reciprocating the marking disk into engagement 8. In a machine for setting up or gluing cartons having an interniittently rotating head carrying a series of carton movement, and intermediate mechanism timed with relation to the mechanism which controls the movement of the head to actuate said reciprocating member during the intervals between the movements of the head, and marking mechanism actuated by the reciprocating member when it moves in a direction to strip the carton from the reciprocating member to bring the marking mechanism intoengage'ment with the carton. 1

9. ma machine for setting up andgluing cartons, a rotary head having a plurality of radiating arms, each provided with a depending holding block, means for intermittently rotating said head, a vertically reciprocating member having HIQSIHS fOI' engaging the carton on the holding block at one of-the stages of rest in its rotation.

'means for actuating said reciprocating member, means for WI LIAM H. DOBLE.

W itnesses WILLIAM A. COPELAND, A'Lmn Tenn. 

